#I Live Where You Vacation

[bixels]

In the past, people in the Animal Crossing community would make fun of Tom Nook as a sleazy landlord. Since then, he's really rehabilitated his image as this 'heart of gold' businessman (he's the one who puts bells and furniture in trees for you to find! he adopted orphans! he donates to charity!), but New Horizons genuinely paints the most devious version of him.

He's successfully privatized settler colonialism: you pay HIM to move to a "deserted island" (which apparently the oceans in the AC world are just full of) and start a colony that he is directly invested in. At best he's running a weird vacation package scam (you arrive on the island with no money and in debt for "using his services"). At worst, he's using you to set up company towns. For god's sake, he literally has his own fake currency that he forces you to use to pay off your debt. But don't worry, he's repackaged it in a way that definitely doesn't sound like an MLM scam: the Nook Mileage Program!

You're no longer just his tenant or his temporary part-timer, you're his business lackey. The entire tutorial section of the game has you spending actual weeks running around completing tasks and doing hard labor to set up his colony. You're even tasked with preparing his properties and finding buyers for them. No, you aren't a tenant anymore. You work for the landlord. You are directly responsible for finding tenants for him. And he doesn't even fucking pay you. Not for setting up town hall and museum, or his nephew's shop –– which is the ONLY store on the entire island that sells necessities –– or bringing KK Slider to town, or helping populate his town. Not a single cent. No, actually, you have to pay HIM to BUY infrastructure like bridges and stairs and park benches. And all the while, he's telling you're the "resident representative"; you get to call the shots! That the reward is the community's progress. That what you're doing is in everyone's best interest (but most importantly, his).

Since NH's release, people have done a lot of legwork to say that Tom Nook isn't a capitalist while the game shows him at his very worst. He owns the only general store in town. You're forced to use a phone that he modified and branded as his own. Buy Nook-branded furniture and merchandise at the self-serve kiosk in the town hall, a governmental building! There's no conflict of interest here!

But hey, if you're tired of being the landlord/business mogul's goon, you can also find work as a deluxe resort home designer for a company that also pays you in their special company currency that can only be used to buy their products instead of a real salary! Because that's what the Animal Crossing franchise needs! More vacation homes!!!

[maddie-grove]

But WHY did William Sleator include an all-cousins love triangle in Others See Us (1993). I’m not offended but I am confused.

[vyeoh]

Having been through the exact airport they likely flew in through makes Jimmy's customs story infinitely funnier

[semiotomatics]

lol. i think ive reached my limit.

[sydmarch]

no interest in any of my hobbies next to no concerts going on all summer feeling abandoned by the majority of the few irls I still have no idea where to meet new people to replace them now that I'm not part of the highly social hard partying sales culture I spent basically all of my post college life in anymore literally what reason is there to keep trying

[sunshinetrinket]

i feel like theres not nearly enough nuance when talking about like. the morality of social media. everything about dropping social media entirely is about being productive, but fail to consider the fact that entertainment is a very normal part of human life? and social media captures a very social kind of entertainment.

i dont think social media is inherently addicting because its fast form entertainment meant to give you quick boosts of dopamine. like eating candy can do that too. but social media is social. artificially to some degree, sure, but social nonetheless. and what is the world if not incredibly lonely. especially in adolescence. it's like quick and easy socializing thats not going to fulfill you but will make you feel like it does for a little bit at least.

and also its entertainment, which is a thing that has existed for ages. people like to chill sometimes. thats normal and also good and healthy. we are not supposed to be productive every moment of our lives. and frankly i dont want to. youre not wrong for not wanting to. its okay if you spend a few hours every day on your phone watching videos. its literally entertainment. its a fun leisure activity. you are not morally bad for like. chilling out. for a bit. obviously theres lines where like sometimes you HAVE to do things and also doing things is good for you generally but its not some hard line of "oh well cut all entertainment (specifically ones that also do some artificial filling of social needs) of your life forever so you can be a better person"

[the-eldritch-it-gay]

can i say. i kinda hate that in the sims 4, in order to eat selvadoradian food you have to have a good selvadoradian skill. I will literally have my teens, who are born to and being raised by a parent of selvadoradian roots. and if they eat the food that parent makes they get moodlet like

And literally cannot continue eating the dish until this moodlet is gone? Plus with a sim that going through a picky eater phase I've gotten

Wild to me that my sims will eat like, buñuelos, arepas, feijoada, empanadas, platanos fritos, etc and be so overwhelmed and uncomfortable they literally can't eat. not to mention that there is no good way to gain the selvadoradian culture skill outside of vacationing to selvadorada. So essentially you can have a child that is born to someone from selvadorada and that child will literally not be able to eat the food the parent makes or learn the culture skill from that parent in any meaningful way outside of slight bumps from being told a legend or shown photos of a vacation.

[taldigi]

were there any pre canon concepts for adrien's/felix's room? i hate the canon one so much the layout confuses me

Afraid not. I think the closest we have is the information that Felix/ Adrian's family owned a hotel (this is before he was made into the villain's son.) A lot of early and even current ladybug is pretty focused around Marinette. Nathan-Felix-Adrien as a character is shockingly inconsequential to the narrative as a whole. (Which is probably why he was so easily edited throughout development whereas Marinette stayed pretty consistent.... And is also apparently still the case from what I've heard of the recent season.)

You can actually really see a lot of the inspiration that it transferred to the agreste mansion... But it also lost a lot of style and flair. Richard had a lot of art deco inspiration in the buildings associated with his character. And you can kind of see that in the hotel piece here. It's all connected, at least I believe it is.

It makes sense that the current one is frustrating. It's a mix between " oh this is what a fabulously wealthy teen boy would like" being full of video games and literal arcade machines, but still having like no personality? Like it's big. Because Adrian is rich. And it's like... Largely undecorated because Gabriel is like a minimalist or whatever... Except for all of the stuff that Adrian has because he's rich. And that's literally the end of it.

Edit: If I were to fathom a... A room that does line up with that hotel era then I would do something like this, except with more whites and golds rather than blue... Or just tailor it to however the cat's relationship to his father is.

[miralparis]

lmaooooooo

[scionshtola]

what if i brought cori’s mom to tural 🥺

[autumnalhalcyon]

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[eccentriccryptid]

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[poisoned-pearls]

playing the sims is giving me au ideas so. Be prepared for MORE azujami brainrot

[mrfoox]

Like class differences is always so painfully obvious to me at times...

[rabbitcruiser]

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[drinkfantasy]

Oh for the love of the gods how i hate holidays

It's supposed to be a fun day, a free day, a day without responsibilities, but all I get it anxiety cause my routine has been messed up and everything feels wrong and I can't do anything about it and you can't possibly do what you do on a normal day during a holiday cause that's not what a holiday is for and you feel pressured by the expectations of having a holiday to have fun and enjoy and getting out of your comfort zone blablablabla while the tighthening in my chess increases and alarms go off and I'm frozen in an internal blue screen

All because someone decided to declare a holiday in the middle of the fucking week.